[mythtv-users] CPU Utilization for video decode with PVR-250

Allen T. Gilliland IV alleng4 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 12 15:41:53 EDT 2003


--- Paul de Bruin <P.W.deBruin at its.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> I have a P2-350/PVR-350/G400/Audigy combo. Rough
> figures are:
> 
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  480x480  (aspect 2)  25.00 fps 
> 5000.0 kbps (625.0 kbyte/s)
> 42% cpu utilisation
> 
> VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  29.97 fps 
> 16000.0 kbps (2000.0 kbyte/s)
> 100% with mplayer complaining about me having a slow
> system ;-).
> 
> The funny thing is that this machine can play just
> about any divx I can
> throw at it with cpu utilisation never reaching
> 100%.

So you can playback a full 720x576 mpeg2 on a pII-350
without having any problems?  I have had trouble
playing that back on my xbox, which is a pIII-733 :/

what kind of divx settings are you talking about?  you
certainly aren't talking about 720x576 mpeg4 right?


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